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In a way, it isn’t that surprising. Executives are constantly being sold the idea that "software is a solved problem." Even if they recognize that this is mostly marketing, it can still influence their internal expectations. They may start thinking, "Maybe AI has solved 30% of software development."

From there, the natural executive question becomes: "How do I make as much of my engineering organization as possible fit into that 30%?"

A lot of the time you're not actually using what is passed to the function, but instead the name of the argument passed to the function (f(x), instead of f('x')). Which, helps the user with their query (dplyr) or configuration (ggplot2).

It's so buzz word heavy. I had a manager that wanted me to solve a problem using the monte-carlo method when it fact the problem had a closed form solution...